(From the May 13-19 issue)
I felt for the council of Springdale a few weeks ago and the controversy over its decision not to paint the rainbow symbol on a town crosswalk to show support for the LGBTQ community.
The problem is the reaction to council’s “No” decision. The town
I remember telling you a year or more ago that I no longer drove the Outer Ring Road in St. John’s when it was raining because that road, when wet, was simply too dangerous.
There are ruts in the Outer Ring that make it look like the old Oregon Trail
We have all, at one time or another, walked into a room like a kitchen or a living room and wondered why we came in there. Let me tell you a story and then ask you a question.
Some weeks ago I left my home in Paradise to go
(This article was posted in our April 22-28 issue)
It was a week ago last Friday that I went down to the Jack Byrne Arena in Torbay. I was there to pick up advance tickets for the Herder games that were scheduled. When I arrived, there were lots of cars
When we headed back to St. John’s from Port aux Basques, we had no sense of the trip being a part of history. We had come out to Port aux Basques as the west-bound part of the express train Caribou that ran on across Newfoundland. The nickname Newfie Bullet never
Published in the April 8-14,2018 issue
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One of the problems with writing weekly as opposed to writing daily is that sometimes you get overtaken by events. It has happened to me dozens of times where I’d write some carefully thought out piece (more or less) about what may happen
This question asked today is directly from the Bible; Book of Acts: 16. “What must I do to be saved?” Consider for a moment that most awful of scenarios in which I am running the province and have gotten to that position by getting elected. The problem is that I
Strangely enough Easter doesn’t jump up in our psyche and confront us the same way Christmas does. Christmas is a birthday. Easter is a crucifixion with death, and rebirth and speaks directly to the central theme of Christianity; redemption. That is what Christianity is all about; being saved; being redeemed.
I often wonder if God has a sense of humour. There have been a number of times in my life when I have made religious jokes or observations in the company of “believers” that were not warmly received. They were people who seemed on balance to be a humourless lot.
I listen with great interest and concern to some recent twists in logic that attempts to fix the declining caplin stocks and the near vanished wild salmon stocks with a battle plan that includes more fishing. This is a song we have heard before. It is a very old song